OkCupid CEO Also Donated to Anti-Gay Pol

As if OkCupid using JavaScript (Brendan Eich's own creation) while denouncing a company he works for wasn't hypocritical enough:

OkCupid's co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan once donated to an anti-gay candidate. (Yagan is also CEO of Match.com.) Specifically, Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) in 2004, reports Uncrunched. During his time as congressman from 1997 to 2009, Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against a ban on sexual-orientation based job discrimination, and for prohibition of gay adoptions. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox

Leave it to Mother Jones to throw it the blatant ignorance too: It's also quite possible that Yagan's politics have changed since 2004: He donated to Barack Obama's campaign in 2007 and 2008. Note to MJ: Obama was also an "anti-gay marriage politician" in the 2008 campaign. By my count, that's TWO bigots he donated to, by his own characterization of Eich.

adammm said^^ It was by OKCupid's characterization of Eich. Hence the post....

Right, but President Obama did not donate money to sustain Prop 8. Before he supported marriage equality, he signed the repeal of DADT and signed a presidential memorandum to give gays visitation rights to hospitals that receive federal funding. Hardly the actions of a homophobe.

Assuming you are a conservative based on your posts, would you like to admit to voting in bigots: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul—take your pick. So far none of them have "evolved."

adammm saidAs if OkCupid using JavaScript (Brendan Eich's own creation) while denouncing a company he works for wasn't hypocritical enough:

OkCupid's co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan once donated to an anti-gay candidate. (Yagan is also CEO of Match.com.) Specifically, Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) in 2004, reports Uncrunched. During his time as congressman from 1997 to 2009, Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against a ban on sexual-orientation based job discrimination, and for prohibition of gay adoptions. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox

Leave it to Mother Jones to throw it the blatant ignorance too: It's also quite possible that Yagan's politics have changed since 2004: He donated to Barack Obama's campaign in 2007 and 2008. Note to MJ: Obama was also an "anti-gay marriage politician" in the 2008 campaign. By my count, that's TWO bigots he donated to, by his own characterization of Eich.

Cannon's vote to ban same-sex marriage happened two years AFTER Yagan donated to Cannon's campaign. This is a pathetic non-story.

Update April 8, 2014, 12:30 p.m. PDT: OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan provided a statement to the SF Chronicle this morning clarifying the intentions behind his donation to Cannon and his stance on gay rights. Here it is in full:

A decade ago, I made a contribution to Representative Chris Cannon because he was the ranking Republican on the House subcommittee that oversaw the Internet and Intellectual Property, matters important to my business and our industry. I accept responsibility for not knowing where he stood on gay rights in particular; I unequivocally support marriage equality and I would not make that contribution again today. However, a contribution made to a candidate with views on hundreds of issues has no equivalence to a contribution supporting Prop. 8, a single issue that has no purpose other than to affirmatively prohibit gay marriage, which I believe is a basic civil right.

adammm saidAs if OkCupid using JavaScript (Brendan Eich's own creation) while denouncing a company he works for wasn't hypocritical enough:

OkCupid's co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan once donated to an anti-gay candidate. (Yagan is also CEO of Match.com.) Specifically, Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) in 2004, reports Uncrunched. During his time as congressman from 1997 to 2009, Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against a ban on sexual-orientation based job discrimination, and for prohibition of gay adoptions. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox

Leave it to Mother Jones to throw it the blatant ignorance too: It's also quite possible that Yagan's politics have changed since 2004: He donated to Barack Obama's campaign in 2007 and 2008. Note to MJ: Obama was also an "anti-gay marriage politician" in the 2008 campaign. By my count, that's TWO bigots he donated to, by his own characterization of Eich.

Cannon's vote to ban same-sex marriage happened two years AFTER Yagan donated to Cannon's campaign. This is a pathetic non-story.

coolarmydude saidUpdate April 8, 2014, 12:30 p.m. PDT: OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan provided a statement to the SF Chronicle this morning clarifying the intentions behind his donation to Cannon and his stance on gay rights. Here it is in full:

A decade ago, I made a contribution to Representative Chris Cannon because he was the ranking Republican on the House subcommittee that oversaw the Internet and Intellectual Property, matters important to my business and our industry. I accept responsibility for not knowing where he stood on gay rights in particular; I unequivocally support marriage equality and I would not make that contribution again today. However, a contribution made to a candidate with views on hundreds of issues has no equivalence to a contribution supporting Prop. 8, a single issue that has no purpose other than to affirmatively prohibit gay marriage, which I believe is a basic civil right.

Eich's ouster was mainly due to the developers at his own company.They didn't want to work for a bigot and they didn't want the company they helped build (and owned a stake in) to be tainted by his bigotry.So they dumped him.It's called the free market.